* Looks at a Cia image* Nope! The Musou genre is actually helping the Zelda franchise in the assets departament!

Just relax man. It's a second party release/crossover. Everybody knows this isn't a standard Zelda game, it's a spinoff. Nintendo isn't going to start making Musou Zelda games. This is good for the franchise, good for Nintendo, and great for the Wii U.

Besides if people demanded that spinoffs be the exact same style as the mainline series, we never would have gotten great titles like Super Mario RPG or Paper Mario. WoW and FFXI wouldn't be a thing. Metroid Prime never would have came into being. Mario Kart wouldn't be hauling the Wii U's ass out of the fire as we speak. Experimenting with your spinoffs is a good thing.

It's a spinoff. Did MarioKart hurt the Mario Platformrs? Did Link's Crossbow Training hurt the regular Zelda games? No. Hyrule Warriors will do decent while people wait for the new Zelda.

I hope it does well and becomes its own spin off series. As much as a I love Zelda, the wait between entries can be rough, and my love of Warriors style games means this fills the void nicely.

Well, it's more a high quality mod of a Dynasty Warriors game and almost everyone seems to be aware that it isn't a mainline entry from Nintendo.

Do you think that anyone decided not to buy Ocarina of Time because the CD-i games were so bad?

The first time heard anyone saying that it would hurt Zelda.

I'm really curious as to how they'll use the rupees. I haven't played a Warriors Musou game since the PS2 so I don't remember how KT's upgrade system worked and how it will carry over the Hyrule Warriors.

I think anyone thats going to buy the game knows its a spinoff so I doubt it hurts the Zelda franchise

It's not about hurting the franchise, it's about hurting just that game. I don't think it will, but I know there are quite a bit here that think it will fail because it's a Musou.

This.  Even though the Musou games suck, it's not like they're main games or anything.